Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality headset company, has apparently begun shipping its first wave of Magic Leap One AR systems to partners in limited numbers. Image courtesy Magic Leap. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Shows Prototype Headset Progress Since 2014.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input. and Vulkan.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap is on sale. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The sales never skyrocketed and now Magic Leap is in desperate need of cash , after many layoffs, disappointing sales, and having put its IP as collaterals to a bank.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2018

Years of Magic Leap’s hype-building seems for many to be turning from excitement to disappointment, as the company continues to evangelize its AR headset with little attempt to demonstrate what it’s actually like to use it. Since the beginning, Magic Leap has been a masterful tease.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

Today SteamVR is still the gold standard for what concerns PCVR tracking and many enthusiasts have Lighthouses installed in their rooms to play VR games on their Valve Index, HTC Vive, or Pimax Crystal Light. This means that for most use cases, the precision of standalone controllers is now more than enough.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

It looks like Magic Leap could be gearing up to jump into the world of mobile AR, as the company recently published a job listing for a senior software engineer who will be tasked with building “a cross-platform framework that enables large scale shared AR experiences between mobile devices (iOS, Android) and Magic Leap devices.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

These glasses have outperformed the sales of Ray-Ban’s first-generation smart glasses, ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ This potential deal could grant Meta more control over EssilorLuxottica’s smart glasses division and strengthen its position in the competitive market against tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Vive Pro date and price, Magic Leap announcements, Nvidia’s real-time ray-tracing, and Budget Cuts resurfaces. The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Magic Leap One, the company’s long-awaited AR headset, has been out for a month now. While the interactions and low poly models are fairly simple from a gaming perspective, the effect it has on Lukas was anything but. — JJ Castillo (@JJCastilloVR) September 6, 2018.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Despite the relatively small size of Magic Leap's first annual L.E.A.P. Apparently missed by many was one of the best experiences I had at the event: Wingnut AR's unreleased Pest Control game. conference, there was a lot to see and experience. Sure, the bugs are virtual, but bugs are bugs, after all.

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Road to VR

MAY 9, 2022

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a practical system for full-body tracking in VR using cameras mounted on the controllers to get a better view of the user’s body. Using a standard Quest 2 headset as the basis for their prototype system, the researchers added two cameras to the controller which face the user.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Doing that will disable the controllers, and you will be able to navigate in the menus just using your hands. Some developers have anyway already stated they plan to implement a controller-free interface in the next version of their applications. Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise. fast replacement of a broken unit).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2018

After a lot of words, flying whales, rock throwing guys and a lot of debates, Magic Leap has been released. Anyway, Magic Leap One will still be $700 cheaper than HoloLens … not that bad. So, around €2000 for these space glasses… (Image by Magic Leap). Control and Charger. 2 USB-C Cables.

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ARPost

JANUARY 25, 2022

Immersive games and apps are now available to an increasingly large number of people, because the technological barriers are now lower than ever. People who own older, average-performing devices can now play VR games and use AR shopping apps. Magic Leap. Innovative AR and VR Companies that Transformed Our Lives.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The game wizards at Insomniac take pride in diving deep when it comes to world-building, and the same is true for the studio's latest title for Magic Leap One called Seedling. conference in Los Angeles, the Magic Leap One-based title is less of a traditional game and more an ongoing augmented reality experience.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 25, 2019

In a side area, there is a substantial line waiting to try out Magic Leap Click To Tweet. They are Magic Leap. Magic Leap is here at SXSW with FLOOD magazine. Meanwhile, in a side area, there is a substantial line waiting to try out Magic Leap’s Augmented Reality. It might be my glasses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2019

Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they’ve recently unveiled a reference design for a magnetic tracking system for VR headsets and controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five is a startup working on eponymous AR glasses that are focused on board games. The idea behind Tilt Five is creating a pair of glasses that are not general-purpose ones, like HoloLens or Magic Leap : Jeri knows the technology is not ready yet. The board and the controller necessary to play Tilt Five games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Conference time and everyone is only talking about Magic Leap in these days. It seems that Microsoft has worked a lot to make the device more ergonomic and elegant , but the style remains anyway less classy than the one of Magic Leap. It seems like a better HoloLens v1, but it still seems to me a glass for lab workers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. No one from Magic Leap or nReal is authorized to talk about this topic, so I won’t address it here. Controller.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap jumped the starting gun and played their cards early. The Magic Leap 2 was released in September last year with an entry price point of $3,299. With the PSVR2 and Apple VR, both are moving away from controller-oriented inputs which could bring a layer of accessibility to VR.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There’s only so much “we know something you don’t know” you can take before it starts to become annoying, but Magic Leap simply would not take a hint.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will "cease to function" from 31 December 2024, the company announced. Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following: As such, we are announcing that Magic Leap 1 end of life date will be December 31, 2024. The company today is still fully focused on enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I guess they will steal some ideas from Magic Leap and provide a more comfortable headset (more cushions) and more customization options (more accessories to fit it on your nose, support for prescription lenses, etc…). I expect with this one to switch to at least 100K polygons in every Unity AR game. Image by Reddit).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In order to access many of the best experiences, however, you must usually wear an awkward-looking headset, such as the HoloLens 2 or the Magic Leap One. The HoloLens 2 starts at $3000 , followed by the Magic Leap One at $2200. On top of that, AR glasses typically come with a steep price.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Developed in collaboration with Resolution Games, Isle of Pigs brings Rovio’s hit mobile game series to VR for the very first-time, sending the series infamous bird-launching gameplay soaring to new heights. Image Credit: Rovio Entertainment / Resolution Games.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And don’t forget that it will surely be launched together with amazing VR games from Sony and its partners’ IPs, so I’m quite sure this headset will have its success. And is also clear that he’s hinting at the fact that they are going in that direction, in building a battery-powered device to play VR games. This is cool.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. Today the interview will cover the first two topics: dataviz in VR thanks to BadVR solution and Magic Leap. and many other interesting stuff!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Audi Motors recently debuted its Activesphere concept car, which features Magic Leap’s augmented reality (AR) driving user interface (UI) technologies. With Magic Leap 2, Audi Dimensions delivered a novel UI creation to empower drivers while on the road.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With it, VoxelGuy vacuums up virtual Euros using an Oculus Quest and Touch controller strapped to a physical vacuum cleaner; he envisions the in-game currency could be used to buy virtual decorations or new room skins to make it even more immersive. That’s not available on consumer VR headsets now, but it could be in the future.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2022

AR tech firm Magic Leap is set to launch in 19 countries across the world, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programs for Magic Leap announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Madeira Island, Portugal. Magic Leap 2 stands on the shoulders of giants and the force.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It has been interesting to watch the reportages of Alex VR and Skeeva from the show floor , where they met many game studios and had meaningful interviews with them.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

He then “drops” an AR remote control car onto a small cement ledge and begins to steer it around a pair of virtual orange cones. Of course, driving a remote control car is a lot more fun with friends. ” Through this approach, users can join each other’s games via a standard QR code.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap One Creator Edition is now available starting at $2,295 USD. Inside the box you’ll find the Lightwear headset, Lightpack computing pack, Control handheld input device, a Fit Kit to ensure a perfectly calibrated fit, chargers, and a handy Quick Start Guide to get you up and running. Via [link]

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ARPost

JULY 21, 2023

The real pioneers of this are definitely Magic Leap and their waveguide lens is the future that I was expecting Apple to actually achieve some kind of breakthrough on,” said Almeida. Controller-Free Design While the Apple Vision Pro has more screens than most VR headsets, it has fewer controllers.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Images appearing to show new ringless Pico controllers were shared on Chinese social media. The existing Pico 4 controllers each have a Pico system button with a colored ring icon, red on the left one and purple on the right one. Unlike the Pico 4 controllers though, the leaked controllers have no tracking ring.

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